Bullwhip effect attenuation in supply chain management via control-theoretic tools and short-term forecasts: A preliminary study with an application to perishable inventories

Koussaila Hamiche (1) , Michel Fliess (2, 3) , Cédric Join (4, 3) , Hassane Abouaïssa (1)

1 LGI2A - Laboratoire de Génie Informatique et d'Automatique de l'Artois
2 LIX - Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École polytechnique [Palaiseau]
3 AL.I.E.N. - ALgèbre pour Identification & Estimation Numériques
4 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy

Supply chain management and inventory control provide most exciting examples of control systems with delays. Here, Smith predictors, model-free control and new time series forecasting techniques are mixed in order to derive an efficient control synthesis. Perishable inventories are also taken into account. The most intriguing ``bullwhip effect'' is explained and attenuated, at least in some important situations. Numerous convincing computer simulations are presented and discussed.

Keywords: inventory control; supply chain management; perishable inventories; Smith predictors; delay systems; bullwhip effect; time series; high gain; model-free control; short-term forecasting

Domains: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science [cs.CE]; Systems and Control [cs.SY]; Automatic Control Engineering; Risk Management [q-fin.RM]; Optimization and Control [math.OC]; Logic [math.LO]; Statistics Theory [stat.TH]

Koussaila Hamiche, Michel Fliess, Cédric Join, Hassane Abouaïssa. Bullwhip effect attenuation in supply chain management via control-theoretic tools and short-term forecasts: A preliminary study with an application to perishable inventories. 6th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, CoDIT 2019, Apr 2019, Paris, France. ⟨10.1109/CoDIT.2019.8820297⟩. ⟨hal-02050480⟩